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    Friday Is Cake Day
    Friday Is Cake Day
    Friday Is Cake Day
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    Friday Is Cake Day

    By Joan Reeves

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    Just in time for the holidays! Joan Reeves, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary Romance, shares 52 Cake Recipes and more than a dozen basic and specialty Frosting Recipes collected from 3 generations of home bakers.

    In a world where you can get cake at a fast food restaurant for a relatively cheap price, why bake one? There are many reasons beginning with the incredible taste of a home-baked cake and ending with the Zen of cake baking.

    There is something immensely satisfying about coming home after a really bad day at work and making a cake. The cake preparation process of combining ingredients, creaming, blending, and mixing is very Zen-like. In about an hour you can go from no cake to cake on the table, and your mood can go from frazzled to satisfied.

    The 52 cake recipes in this book are family recipes collected through the years by Joan. The recipes are from her grandmother, her mother, friends, and other family members. Some recipes are complex and time-intensive. Other recipes use the convenience of cake mixes, and others are dump cakes that offer time-saving convenience and good taste. Try a different cake every week so you can also claim that Friday Is Cake Day!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoan Reeves
    Release dateDec 4, 2016
    ISBN9780991599646
    Friday Is Cake Day
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    Joan Reeves

    Joan Reeves—Keeping Romance Alive…One Sexy Book at a Time—is a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary Romance. From Romantic Comedy to Romantic Thriller, all of her stories have the same premise: “It’s never too late to live happily ever after.” Joan lives her happily-ever-after with her hero, her husband, in the Lone Star State. They divide their time between a book-cluttered home in Houston and a quiet house at the foot of the Texas Hill Country where they sit on the porch at night, look up at the star-studded sky, and listen to the coyotes howl. Sign up for Joan’s Mailing List and be the first to know about giveaways and new books: http://www.subscribepage.com/z8x3r9.

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      Friday Is Cake Day - Joan Reeves

      WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE BAKING

      Ovens have changed to the one my Mom had to use as a newlywed to a World War II soldier back from the war and living in a rustic house with few modern conveniences. Now we have convection ovens, microwave ovens, digitally controlled temperature ovens, duel-fuel stoves, and so many other amazing appliances and gadgets.

      BAKING DISHES AND PANS

      There are many kinds of baking pans, some made of metal and some made of glass. Most modern metal baking pans are dark and coated with a nonstick surface. If you use that type of metal pan or a glass baking dish, you must reduce the oven heat to 325 degrees if the recipe calls for 350 degrees. The dark coating makes the pan absorb more heat thus the need for a lower baking temperature.

      Start with a basic cake pan set and a Bundt pan then add to your baking pan collection if you decide you really love baking and want to be truly creative. Here’s an overview of the most common baking pans and the volume of batter each holds.

      Round Layer Cake Pans are most commonly in 8-inch or 9-inch diameters by 1 ½ inches high. I use my 9-inch pans most frequently. These pans can hold 6 cups of batter.

      Square Pans are usually 8-inches square by 2-inches high. This pan holds 8 cups of batter.

      Rectangular Pans are usually 11 inches by 7 inches by 1 1/2 inches high. This pan holds 8 cups of batter. Large rectangular pans are 11 3/4 inches by 7 1/2 inches by 1 3/4 inches high and hold 10 cups of batter. These are usually what you us to make brownies or sheet cakes.

      Loaf Pans are used for what the name implies and are usually 7 3/8 inches by 3 5/8 inches wide by 2 5/8 inches high. These hold 8 cups of batter.

      Bundt Cake Pans are a form of tube pan and come in diameters from 7 1/2 inches to 10 inches. The height of the pans range from 3 inches to 4 inches. Usually a 9 inch by 3-inch high Bundt pan is fine for most home baking. That size pan will hold 9 cups of batter. A good Bundt pan can be expensive. The one I have is about 40 years old and weighs about five pounds. It’s a 10-inch pan which holds 12 cups of batter. You can find aluminum ones relatively cheap, but they’re thin and lightweight. It’s better to select one that’s a heavier and thicker. Those start at about twenty dollars. By the way, if you get a heavy cast aluminum one, never put it (or anything made of cast aluminum) in a dishwasher. The dishwasher detergent contains chlorine which will etch your

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